Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Movie Review - "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"

Whooooaaaaaaa. This is the most depressing movie ever. I mean, of course a movie about the Holocaust is not going to be uplifting, but seriously, the ending of this movie may have put me off Netflix for good.


Warning: If you were possibly planning on using this movie to introduce your children to the concept of the Holocaust, DO NOT DO IT. Seriously. I think a kid would be scarred for life by watching this sucker.


That being said, it is an extremely interesting, absorbing movie about a little boy whose dad runs a concentration camp. The boy befriends a boy inside the camp, without understanding what's going on.


But if you're feeling emotionally fragile, do not watch this movie. I'm warning you. The ending will shatter you.

1 comment:

CMD said...

seriously??? because i did not like the book OR the movie...what a shallow treatment of the holocaust...and never once was i drawn to any of the characters...they, too, were shallow, mere caricatures of real beings...and for that reason, i had no emotional attachment to them...i was actually happy at the end that the ignorant little boy got a taste of his dad's evil medicine...plus the boy in striped pajamas was a figment of his imagination, a literary device to show bruno's inner conflict between his feelings of humanity and curiosity and the propaganda that was being shoved down his throat by his tutor and environment...it's not worth a dollar at the redbox

chris
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